Sunday, February 01, 2015
Friday, January 30, 2015
Romney declares himself out, find your own headline on that. What I'd like to see the Republicans do ...
The GOP should collapse the front men, and either nominate the Koch brothers directly - they could flip a coin for top spot vs veep - or go past the talking heads to the counting houses, with a Karl Rove - Norm Coleman ticket.
But will they take outside advice? Not likely.
____________UPDATE_____________
Do you suppose there'd be traction to a gender-balanced ticket?
Follow-up question, on that ticket, who'd Kent Sorenson support for top spot, in Iowa?
And this -
-- a FURTHER UPDATE for the comment troll.
But will they take outside advice? Not likely.
____________UPDATE_____________
Do you suppose there'd be traction to a gender-balanced ticket?
Follow-up question, on that ticket, who'd Kent Sorenson support for top spot, in Iowa?
And this -
-- a FURTHER UPDATE for the comment troll.
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) on Tuesday condemned the conservative blog of a Republican state Board of Education member over its description of President Obama as a "half-breed," according to the Omaha World-Herald. "While many Nebraskans disagree with our president on many issues, he is deserving of the same civility and respect we give one another," Ricketts said, according to the World-Herald. "There is no room for bigotry. I am deeply disappointed and unequivocally condemn these comments."
While political correctness can be debated, the Nebraska story thread can and did lead to strange places.
First, current Nebraska stories, the first of which yielded this post's headline, are online here and here.
Of interest is that googling the term "half breed" leads to yet more Republicans' revelations, Wikipedia here, and a follow-up on President Garfield's death, here, with the latter item unfortunately not noting whether any depredation to Garfield's wallet attended his "treatment" after his being shot, while otherwise being not particularly friendly to the medical profession (or a part of it) in Garfield's time.
So, the Republican "half breeds" - back then of course - were in favor of civil service reform over the spoils system and hence were regarded by many in their party as not being true Republicans. Nothing related to Ron/Rand these days, and true Republicanism litmus tests, as they may be formulated, these days.
First, current Nebraska stories, the first of which yielded this post's headline, are online here and here.
Of interest is that googling the term "half breed" leads to yet more Republicans' revelations, Wikipedia here, and a follow-up on President Garfield's death, here, with the latter item unfortunately not noting whether any depredation to Garfield's wallet attended his "treatment" after his being shot, while otherwise being not particularly friendly to the medical profession (or a part of it) in Garfield's time.
So, the Republican "half breeds" - back then of course - were in favor of civil service reform over the spoils system and hence were regarded by many in their party as not being true Republicans. Nothing related to Ron/Rand these days, and true Republicanism litmus tests, as they may be formulated, these days.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
The sulfide mining debate - an opinion published from within the Boundary Waters regional tourism industry, to the effect: there's a goose laying golden eggs for jobs and cashflows into Minnesota ...
This Strib link. Do not overlook that perspective.
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
A ceiling on mining abuses will firm up the floor for tourism to continue to contribute to Range economic growth and prosperity.
In that regard, short-sightedness can be devastating because it can cause irreversible harms lasting centuries into the future.
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
A ceiling on mining abuses will firm up the floor for tourism to continue to contribute to Range economic growth and prosperity.
In that regard, short-sightedness can be devastating because it can cause irreversible harms lasting centuries into the future.
One Bush, he dropped on us his "War on Terror," and the tar of that is still sticking. If the Jebster has his way with us, there will be a legacy "War on Tenure."
While mn2020 is no longer active, there is the archive
http://mn2020hindsight.org/
with a sub-archive
http://mn2020hindsight.org/STIE_INDEX/category/teachers/
and then, this specific item, "Teachers, RTW, and the ALEC Agenda in Minnesota, By Michael J. Diedrich, Policy Associate, March 23, 2012 (at 7:45 am)," where you can find many helpful links to follow.
[All of Diedrich's several MN2020 teacher/tenure related posts have this link. The above specific item is the latest archived item by Diedrich. A couple of other posts of interest related to the "War on Tenure" are here and here. Navigate through the archived material, with the motive that the more you navigate and read, the more you understand about the perspective of unionized teachers. Without unionization there is no solidarity, and without solidarity teachers, the best and worse of them, can be sniped down by enemy fire, one after another after another. Without seniority in unionization there is no solidarity; like it, love it, that's HOW IT IS. Unions lacking seniority protection cease to be effective unions.]
Read that stuff. Get a perspective against what our Republican friends (especially those with ALEC close at heart) are up to, including presidential wannabe Jeb Bush who is profiting handsomely from some of the standardized testing - virtual education steps ALEC and its corporate hangers-on want to see generating ever-larger private sector profits at the expense of sound public education. It is an organized and scripted tide, on that side, and it will be unfolding further, in Minnesota. Organized resistance grounded on union seniority protection is the only thing standing between present effective public education, and its being gutted.
Stay tuned.
And, reader response remains welcome, re this link. That particular organ of propaganda, the so-called "Freedom Foundation of Minnesota" [with its 501(c)(3) status which some might find offensive, indeed, highly offensive] is a part of the scripted assault on public education, aka "The War on Tenure."
http://mn2020hindsight.org/
with a sub-archive
http://mn2020hindsight.org/STIE_INDEX/category/teachers/
and then, this specific item, "Teachers, RTW, and the ALEC Agenda in Minnesota, By Michael J. Diedrich, Policy Associate, March 23, 2012 (at 7:45 am)," where you can find many helpful links to follow.
[All of Diedrich's several MN2020 teacher/tenure related posts have this link. The above specific item is the latest archived item by Diedrich. A couple of other posts of interest related to the "War on Tenure" are here and here. Navigate through the archived material, with the motive that the more you navigate and read, the more you understand about the perspective of unionized teachers. Without unionization there is no solidarity, and without solidarity teachers, the best and worse of them, can be sniped down by enemy fire, one after another after another. Without seniority in unionization there is no solidarity; like it, love it, that's HOW IT IS. Unions lacking seniority protection cease to be effective unions.]
Read that stuff. Get a perspective against what our Republican friends (especially those with ALEC close at heart) are up to, including presidential wannabe Jeb Bush who is profiting handsomely from some of the standardized testing - virtual education steps ALEC and its corporate hangers-on want to see generating ever-larger private sector profits at the expense of sound public education. It is an organized and scripted tide, on that side, and it will be unfolding further, in Minnesota. Organized resistance grounded on union seniority protection is the only thing standing between present effective public education, and its being gutted.
Stay tuned.
And, reader response remains welcome, re this link. That particular organ of propaganda, the so-called "Freedom Foundation of Minnesota" [with its 501(c)(3) status which some might find offensive, indeed, highly offensive] is a part of the scripted assault on public education, aka "The War on Tenure."
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Who are these idiots, and why should I, in Ramsey, care?
This link.
_____________UPDATE______________
They have a team.
And, big time surprise, a Facebook page. Replete with Pics of bunches of smiling people standing close together. Sophisticated stuff like that.
It it were not for his being a fiction and not a real person, this town would give good public money to Forrest Gump, to consult.
To survey.
_____________UPDATE______________
They have a team.
And, big time surprise, a Facebook page. Replete with Pics of bunches of smiling people standing close together. Sophisticated stuff like that.
To survey.
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